Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 19
May 19: Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day in Turkey
- 1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery.
- 1649 - The Rump Parliament passed an act to formally establish the Commonwealth of England.
- 1802 - The Légion d'honneur was first instituted by Napoléon Bonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic.
- 1921 - The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas on immigration to the United States.
- 1922 - The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union was founded.